1. |
Dinner Plates
04:27
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One by one we marched down to the river
With an empty bottle for the baptism
You can pour the water over me
But don't take that as a guarantee
God knows there are some sins that can't be forgiven
When we met you told me you once flew high
And with no regret I said Boy! do i!
Well you can pour the water on my head
Some folks are so easily led
Some home truths better put to bed, that's no lie
I am trying I am trying Lord, my best efforts to be
A saint amongst temptation and the lures of being free
Instead of paving i've been digging now there's dirt all over me
Let's pop these spades away..
Pour the water over me
Dinner Plates are made for good home cooking
Now a pass the parcel, no one's looking
You can pass that old plate on to me
I'll try my best as referee
But If my whistle breaks, can't guarantee i'll say no
Coz I'm trying I am trying Lord, my best efforts to be
A saint amongst temptation and the lures of being free
Instead of paving i've been digging now there's dirt all over me
Let's pop these spades away..
Pour the water over me
Let's pop these spades away
Pour the water over me
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2. |
Love
03:51
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I love you
Plain and simple
And I will do
All my life
I can't dress it up
Just don't need to
Cos in the morning
We're the people we were last night
I love you
Mountains cannot move me
Songs they cannot soothe me
Any more than you can
When I'm with you
There's nothing I can't do
No words to describe you
To describe how I feel about my man.
I love you
Until this heart stops
Until these feet drop
Beneath the earth
Until then dear
We rest on borrowed time
Oh but darling you're all mine
For what it's worth
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3. |
Living On The Run
03:38
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Heavy is the window frame
Rusty is the iron bolt
Heavy is the window frame
Heavy is the heart you leave
Frozen are the words you speak
Heavy is the heart you leave behind
Living on the run is not for boys
You know you better turn around
And come back home
Come back home
Come back home
You know you never should've left
You better come back home
What about the girl you left
What about her pretty face
What about the girl you left behind
Tell you buddies what you did
Tell them how you run away
Tell them how you never once looked back
Living on the run is not for boys
you know you better turn around
And come back home
Come back home
Come back home
You know you never should've left
You better come back home
I'll see you when the years have passed
I'll see you when i'm old and grey
I'll see you when the years have passed behind
Living on the run is not for boys
you know you better turn around
And come back home
Come back home
Come back home
You know you never should've left
You better come back home
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4. |
Little Magpie
04:23
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Little bird I hear you're not sleeping
Your thoughts keep you up at night
Just cos he left you, doesn't mean you're worth leaving
Just means love had lost the fight
Oh I know your poor heart's bleeding
but time will mend it all the same
don't go and give your broken heart to another
before it' happens all again
Oooh little bird, fly away
Oooh little bird, fly away
Little bird he wasn't worth keeping
Don't let him keep you up at night
Cos the night is for sleeping
Just know you've won the fight
Oooh little bird, fly away
Oooh little bird, fly away
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5. |
Our Time Is Now
04:35
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Under that big old tree
Near the bus by your house
At the lake for New Years
And every year in the soup
I thought i'd know
Thought we'd just be friends
But off you did go
Our luck never ends
In the bay of Apollo
Looking in from a distance
Think i knew we were gonna see
I think i knew we were gonna be
Cos our time is now
And i keep on flying, flying high
I know somehow
Our love will never die
And when you go
I wish you wouldn't
And when the sun is low
I wish you wouldn't
And when you go
I wish you wouldn't
And when the sun is low
I wish you wouldn't
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6. |
Fairgrounds
05:34
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Well the fair left town last night
Tumbleweeds across the ground
And what a sight, the freak show packed up and left
Now it's gone
There once were spinning wheels and ferris wheels
And lions, ferocious
Now there's just a hole in the ground
Where the tent peg stood and that's all
Don't you pull the wool over my eyes
Another wolf in sheep's clothing
Saying what he oughta just to get on by
If you don't feel it, If you're not in it
Don't you do the things true lovers do
Cos while i'm thrilling for a minute
I sure as hell feel it
When the Fair's on the move
What sparkle was lost in my eyes
What softness was lost in my skin
The way the light stretched through my bedroom window so nice
How did it grow so dim
I got a habit, I gotta have it
Guess that's why I let them so easily in
Magic woman for a moment
then I'm me again
Don't you pull the wool over my eyes
Another wolf in sheep's clothing
Saying what he oughta just to get on by
If you don't feel it, If you're not in it
Don't you do the things true lovers do
Cos while i'm thrilling for a minute
I sure as hell feel it
When the Fair's on the move
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7. |
Since That Day
01:53
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They say love's a game
I never wanted to play
So when you came
Into my life, it changed
I couldn't resist your charm
Fell into your arms
Now you're the one I blame
For my broken heart
My life's fallen apart
Since that day
Now you're on my mind
Say you'll love me again
My heart still cries
Feels like i'm going insane
And while we never said forever
I always hoped it would be
But for you i'm just another fading memory
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8. |
The Mangrove
04:23
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Sandbag the floor, she'll grow bigger
It might creep higher but she won't flicker
The floods this year running ever higher
But not yet, not yet
But not yet, not yet
Can't taste the sweat of anxious summer
Waiting the the drop that overcomes her
The salts build up yet she's not bitter
But not yet, not yet
But not yet, not yet
The mangrove drops a leaf
That saves it from the salt
she'll do the dame
And won't fault
won't fault
Face the music
Bite the bullet
The bed's made but don't you lie on it
The leaf will fall
If you can kick it
But not yet, not yet
The mangrove drops a leaf
That saves it from the salt
she'll do the dame
And won't fault
won't fault
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9. |
Changing Lanes
04:28
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Playing with fire again
My god I can't help it sometimes
Gotta dip my toe in
Why oh why do I so easily sway?
Cos there's a devil on my shoulder
And it always has the right thing to say
Distance makes the heart grow weak
How can i stay connected with you
when we don't even speak?
Why oh why do you so wanna stay?
Is there a devil on your shoulder
Telling you things could be better this way?
You come in from the city you say that London brings you down
You said it turned me inside out
Boy oh what a pity we couldn't figure this one out
Instead we're going round and round
Dragging me in while I drag you away
Why do I have to pitch it to you?
This happiness that you crave
Why oh why must I convince you it's right?
Should I be the devil on your shoulder
Whose job it is to pull you from strife?
Playing with fire again
My god I can't help it sometimes
Gotta dip my toe in
Why oh why do I so easily sway?
Cos there's a devil on my shoulder
And it always has the right thing to say
Yeah there's a devil on my shoulder
That knows things must be better this way
Yeah there's a devil on my shoulder
That knows that happiness is not so far away.
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10. |
Blue
04:34
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With you everything is blue
I'm caught up in this hue
It's swirling round my head
Although this colour's often sad
With you it's not so bad, my love
Waking on a Saturday
Head hurts from champagne
But your body's warm
I can feel it in my chest
There's nothing to contest, my love
My love
All my life I've been waiting for someone
But I didn't know where to find you
Now I know that I wanna spend my life
With a man wearing blue
I once thought that it could end
But I couldn't pretend
My love you're made for me
You're the beating in my chest
where my compass rests, my love
With you everything is blue
Theres' nothing quite as true
As my love for you
we'll turn at every bend
I'll love you 'till the end, my love
My love
My love
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The Sockettes Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne band, The Sockettes create songs that reflect the intimacy of conversations between friends. Alice, Méabh & Leah share learnings of love and longing through folk music that is transportive and nostalgic yet
pertinent to today.
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